Ramblings of a freelance IT Consultant working for some nice SME's, large organisations, resellers and the usual friends and family!
Bit of a technical, Marillion and King Crimson junky. That's where the money goes - 1's and 0's.
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The jury's still out for me on this one. I've signed up (@pjbryant if you're interested) but spent a bit of time experimenting with a number of apps for Windows Mobile before settling over the past few weeks on Twikini (http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini). Why?

Well it was in beta

It was therefore £0

It actually worked (most of the time - it was beta!) unlike some I could name...

It was visually simple,and had clean lines (as an example - see the image here)

It's allowed me to experimentwith the genre, but I'm still not sure what the point is....

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

About 9% (I think that's the latest figure) of road deaths are directly related to speeding. Yet policing of our roads is almost exclusively speed cameras now raising over £250,000 a day in fines (soon to go up 25% with a "victim levy").

For quite a few years the Govt has (pretty much) imposed house building quotas on unelected regional assemblies (that cost the taxpayer a fortune); these then get foisted on elected local govt, and anger or upset residents.

Today I read that there are 960,000 empty houses (mostly rural) on which VAT would be due if renovations are done (whereas new builds are VAT free). Where's the sanity in keeping nearly a million homes empty and building more instead. Let whatever money is swishing around help fix these homes, and if jobs need to move out (or more telecommuting) then let it. Rural communities have taken quite a battering from Nouveau Labour over the years, I don't suppose they'll change, but...